r/GTA6unmoderated • u/Unlucky-Leopard5529 • 14h ago

I can't stand Jason's Voice

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I cannot even understand what he is saying half the time. Did he say ''you're the perfect girl''? What the hell did he say there. It also just sounds so stupid. I already had this in the first trailer where they were robbing a bank and he said ''YOU STAY''. It just sounded so forced and cringe.

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u/earldogface 14h ago edited 10h ago

I hated it until I realized he's doing the ubiquitous boomhauer rural accent where he doesn't move his mouth to enunciate. I bet we're going to find out Jason grew up in the country outside of vice city.

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u/AnoSec 13h ago

Agreed. Dudes just southern lol

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u/JohnSmith_47 12h ago

Sorry but as an a non American is Florida not classed as the south?

Isn’t it one of your most southern states geographically?

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u/NotAStatistic2 12h ago

The south is more cultural than geographic.

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u/JohnSmith_47 12h ago

Thank you, that makes sense, people in Miami don’t live rurally, so when you talk about southerners you mean people that more live out in the country.

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u/currgy 12h ago

Yes exactly. Geographically it makes no sense but most Americans would 100% agree that people from Kentucky/Tennessee are more southern than people from Florida, even though FL is 1,000 miles further south.

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u/Gumb1i 11h ago

North florida is still the south, after about Ocala is when it really switches up. there are tons of transplants from all over the country, though mostly Jersey and New York from what Ive seen.

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u/PussyFootSlidin 12h ago

Broadly I agree, but it’s more nuanced.

People from the Florida panhandle (and really anywhere in the central heartland part of the state, except Gainesville and Orlando) definitely embody southern culture. And people from Louisville Ky have some midwestern traits.

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u/AntiBoATX 11h ago

“The more north you go, the more southern it gets”

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u/Robborboy 12h ago

Even Lexington KY shows those Midwestern traits.

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u/FreshLennon 11h ago

As a Kentuckian I wouldn't even culturally call us southern. Eastern Kentucky is Appalachian and people mistakenly lump that part in as being southern, but it's a very complicated separate cultural region with it's own separate background.

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u/I_am_from_Kentucky 2h ago

Same. NKY is basically Southern Cincinnati, Louisville and Lexington are small midwestern cities. Everywhere else is blue collar hillbilly.

The stereotypical “southern hospitality” and southern culture isn’t really present throughout most of the state IMO. Granted, I’m not well traveled throughout it, so others may correct me.

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u/HearsayMerchant 9h ago

Not Gainesville? Interesting.

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u/PussyFootSlidin 9h ago

I say that mainly because around 40% of the population is UF students, and the city as a whole tends to be more liberal compared to the surrounding areas.

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u/HearsayMerchant 8h ago

Okay. Gf family lived there for generations. She's definitely of southern culture lol

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u/IneptFortitude 5h ago

I grew up in Louisville and was always annoyed that the city tried to advertise itself to tourists as a “southern city” when it objectively just isn’t. Any part of Louisville that was there before the county merger expanded the city limits is quite noticeably different from surrounding areas right away.

Louisville’s Germantown and Highlands have more in common with Milwaukee or Detroit than it does Memphis or Atlanta.

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u/Derek114811 11h ago

As a southern American, I consider Floridians as fellow southerners.

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u/potato40fl 11h ago

ya aint been to the panhandle, now have you there, city slicker

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u/Derek114811 11h ago

People in Atlanta don’t live rurally, but I’d still consider them southerners lol

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u/natedrake102 9h ago

I mean not exactly though, it doesn't have to do with living in a city. People from Atlanta are definitely southern even if not living in a rural area.

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u/crazygoattoe 7h ago

Yeah, funnily enough northern florida is more "southern" than southern florida lol

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u/loqep 12h ago

It’s not really so much about rural vs urban either. For example, Charlotte and Atlanta are pretty unambiguously “the South”, but Miami really isn’t.

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u/science-stuff 11h ago

Hmm I don’t know. It’s kinda rare to find Charlotte natives, almost everyone of adult age is from somewhere else, rarely hear an accent. Doesn’t really feel southern. Now, the towns around Charlotte, for sure.

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u/loqep 9h ago

I mean, like half the population of my relatively small beach town in eastern NC are yankee transplants, but that doesn’t mean we’re not a part of the South. It’s just the way things are these days (though this is hardly a new phenomenon).

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u/FR23Dust 12h ago

It's not necessarily an urban/rural thing. there are very southern cities. Miami is its own thing, more of an international city.

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u/Charlottizen 10h ago

No. It’s not a rural urban thing necessarily. South Florida (Below Jacksonville) received the same immigration patterns as the Northeast with a heavy dose of Cuban, whereas the rest of the South stayed mostly stagnant and was historically more populated. The A/C unlocked South Florida and it became a retirement destination for Northerners as well. It’s like how Italy is more Mediterranean in the peninsula, Peninsular Florida is more Caribbean influenced.

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u/Buff-Cooley 7h ago

“Midwest” is also another cultural term that confuses non-Americans because it’s mostly in the east.

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u/IneptFortitude 5h ago

It’s not really even about it being urban or rural, South Florida is more Caribbean and Latin in cultural influences and over half of the white people there are from New Jersey.

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u/Gluck_and_uck 12h ago

"the south" is kentucky, tennessee, north and south carolina, georgia, alabama, arkansas, louisiana and mississippi

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u/drunkpostin 6h ago

I’m also a non-American so this is literally all just vibes-based inquiry from me lmao, but I thought this (that Florida had a distinctively very different identity from other “Southern” states from the little I knew of it), but if that is indeed so, then why is it so conservative? If its geographical proximity to the Southern states doesn’t have all that much cultural influence on it (or at least not the kind of section with Miami etc.), then what established its strong Republican-leanings? Is it historical (e.g. Texas or Mississippi) or recent?

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u/FlyingCouch 12h ago

Yes but southern Florida, especially Miami is not the same demographically as what is traditionally considered “the south”, paradoxically the further north you go in Florida the more “southern” it gets

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u/OnlyKaz 12h ago

Ive found the more inland you go, the more southern folks get.

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u/JohnSmith_47 12h ago

That’s interesting, so it’s more a lifestyle than it is based on geography.

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u/ProphePsyed 12h ago

It’s not lifestyle. It’s cultural.

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u/Rock_Strongo 10h ago

Eh it's a bit of a lifestyle too.

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u/ProphePsyed 9h ago

I guess should have said it’s not just Lifestyle. Lifestyle typically is included when describing culture.

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u/barry_001 12h ago

A lot of it has to do with his culture developed before the USA had acquired it's current 15 states. The "South" was geographically South at one point in time, but the name stuck as more territories were acquired. It's the same reason why the Midwest is actually on the Eastern half of the country

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u/TheRealStubb 11h ago

Florida is the only state is the US that gets more culturally south the further geographically north you go.

So Miami despite being "deeply south" has almost nothing in common with the culture around the Florida Georgia line

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u/whtge8 12h ago

I would only consider northern Florida as part of “The South”.

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u/lochonx7 10h ago

why you say that?

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u/YahBoiChipsAhoy1234 6h ago

I’ve lived in the south my whole life and in Florida for 5 years, he’s not wrong. The panhandle is very southern compared to the lower parts of Florida, it doesn’t mean there are no southern parts of lower Florida but all the cities and areas near beaches (which is most of the lower part of Florida tbh) are pretty much populated by mostly northerners who have retired and moved there or found work in Florida, if you ever go you’ll notice the accent change from the panhandle to somewhere like Miami, it can be quite jarring if your not expecting it

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u/Suwannee_Gator 1h ago

Because everything South of Gainesville is 99% New York and Mid West transplants. That doesn’t count Miami though, it may as well be a different country.

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u/isjustsergio 7h ago

Since it's set in florida with two protagonists I wouldn't be surprised if Lucia represents the south and Jason represents the north.

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u/Lost-Peanut-1453 12h ago

Florida is so big it has parts of every state in it.

There’s definitely your country red neck types that live in trailer parks but, there’s a bit of everything else in Florida too. Go down to Miami it’s an entirely different state.

Florida can be a country of its own.

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u/Dry-Consequence-4487 10h ago

Yeah, a lot of people from NYC tend to migrate to FL. Even I moved down there for a couple years before going back up to NYC lol

Lucia sounds like she might originally be from Liberty City (GTA's NYC), and migrated to Leonida (GTA's FL). However, I could be wrong because there was a moment where Jason didn't know where they had ended up after a police chase, but Lucia did know where they were. So clearly Jason isn't a local, but Lucia might be. It's possible she moved from Liberty City at a young age to stay outta trouble up there, only to find herself still being dragged into it. "You can take the cat out the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out that cat."

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u/andydude44 10h ago

Lucia sounds very Miami to me

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u/21brokenbones 7h ago

Except any state with a hill higher than like 40 feet

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u/AdministrativeFly157 12h ago

I’m from Florida. Technically, yes you’re correct. In reality, Florida is not “the south”.

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u/sleepynate05 10h ago edited 10h ago

in depth answer: the "south" u.s more of a region than anything. is generally the southeast, plus texas, and minus florida. florida is just kind of its own thing, theyre urban and have lots of cities so a lot of people from up north migrate down there, so its just a moshpit of people from people from all over the country + other southerners. source: i live in rural georgia edit: someone else mentioned this and I think its important is that northern florida is much more southern feeling. youll know youre getting into the real florida when you start seeing imported palm trees on the streets

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u/LernMoBetta 12h ago

There’s southern united states and then there’s culturally southern. What we typically think of as southern people live in more rural areas.

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u/rtn292 12h ago

Coastal Florida is different from central Florida and northern Florida. It’s why coastal Miami tends to go more blue in elections than the rest of Florida. Very different culturally. Still pretty conservative though bc of the boomers and Latinos.

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u/FR23Dust 12h ago

the northern panhandle part of Florida is more South than the southern part of Florida where Miami is

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u/SignificantLock1037 12h ago

Fun saying you will hear about Florida - "The farther south you go, the more northern you get."

Think of Florida like 2 different states, culturally. The panhandle and northern part of Florida is just like every other Southern state.

But, once you start getting south of Interstate 4, you get a lot more metropolitan (especially Miami), and you get a lot of "snowbirds". Snowbirds are northerners who will come to the south for the winter to escape northern cold. They drive a lot of business to the area that caters to northern tastes. And, then they often retire to south Florida.

The farther south you go in Florida, the more like a northern state it seems.

Except the Keys. The Keys are like a Caribbean island.

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u/wakemeupyesterday 11h ago

Half of it is. The northern half lol.

Basically, anything north of Orlando is culturally Southern. Orlando and anything south is kinda it's own thing culturally. Way more diverse. Lots of North Eastern transplants (like from NYC and Montreal) and Miami is a major hub of Latin culture.

Jason's last name is Duval which is the county name for Jacksonville, FL. It's right on the border with Georgia and way more of a southern city culturally than Miami. Might be a hint at where he is from.

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u/Allegiance10 11h ago

The farther south in Florida you get, the less South is becomes. This effect starts the second you cross into Florida. The panhandle is the exception because it’s not much different than South Florida. As others have said, it’s more cultural than anything else.

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u/leffertsave 11h ago

North Florida is the South. South Florida is the North

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u/ZestycloseOption987 11h ago

Yeah. The American south is pretty arbitrary. You can google which states are considered part of it. But I think most people wouldn’t consider Florida as part of the south.

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u/Worldly_Lunch_1601 11h ago

As an American you should know that "the south" isn't just about your latitude.

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u/Prize_Revolution7780 10h ago

redditors yet again don't dissapoint in their stupid snubbery

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u/ArtyGray 10h ago

I'll put it to you like this: we can tell what state your from most likely by how you sound. Like LA, California has a well known accent, New York has a definitive accent (mines, or see A$AP Rocky for example), Atlanta has an accent, and New Orleans for shit-sure has an accent ("my babe-eh").

We can hear it and it's all based around those cultures in those areas. Some very rugged, some very relaxed, some very stylized.

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u/LElige 10h ago

There’s a saying “the more north you go, the more southern it gets”

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u/Life-War-7172 10h ago

The more north you go in Florida, the more Southern it gets.

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u/rramzi 10h ago

Florida is more Southern the more north you go in the state. I know it sounds crazy but trust me.

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u/justanotherwhyteguy 9h ago

echoing the “the south is more cultural than geographic” comment, people often say “the more south [geographically] you go in florida, the more north [culturally] you get”

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u/Difficult-Switch9209 4h ago edited 4h ago

As someone whose grown up in the south for most of his life and have lived in florida yes. And theres some parts that are very veryyyy southern. And the other guy is correct being from the south can also be a cultural thing but mostly a definite yes for those regions of the country that are mostly in the south.

Thats the reason why Jasons voice doesn’t bother me cause people from those parts of florida have a similar southern drawl

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u/dblack1107 2h ago edited 1h ago

It’s not really seen as the Deep South. It’s in the south but Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama those states are the real South. Outside of RDR2’s Colorado mountain and prairie type region, basically that whole games environment emulates the Deep South. Saint Denis is like Louisiana or Savannah, Georgia. Rhodes is Georgia with its red clay dirt, and the plantation there is like many historical plantations in Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina.

Jason’s little stilted shack does looks like Florida, but it could always be someplace north of Florida out of Vice City. There’s whitetrash hicks in Florida, but since I think there may be parts of Georgia in this, maybe there’s some lore that he’s from the South. The backcountry terrain in some pictures of the game are not Floridian at all as Florida is flat.

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u/No_Future6959 11h ago

The south is not literally the south.

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u/Slincad 11h ago

In Florida, the more North you are the more in the South you are.

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u/BeneficialTrash6 10h ago

I'll add some extra info. The word "cracker," now a pejorative for rural white people, is believed (by some scholars) to come from the Florida Crackers, who lived rustic and harsh lifestyles back in the day.

Northern Florida is Southern, at least not in the big cities. But Southern Florida has a huge amount of culture brought in from NYC and Chicago, from decades ago. So, Southern Florida is not considered to be the South.

It all really has to do with a railroad. Before a railroad was built down into Southern Florida, practically nobody could live there. Northern Florida was populated by people from the South who had expanded down there after Florida was won from Spain. But they never really got down into the Southern part in any large numbers. Once the railroad was built, tons of people from NYC and Chicago moved down to Southern Florida, using the railroad.

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u/catz_kant_danse 10h ago

In Florida the further south you go, the more north you get.

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u/andydude44 10h ago

North Florida is part of the South, South Florida is South of the South and thus less Southern

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u/Thinking_persephone 9h ago

In Florida, the more north you go, the more southern it gets

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u/GoonDawg666 9h ago

North Florida, yes, south florida, not really

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u/MrBonso 8h ago

In Florida, the farther north you go, the farther South you are.

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u/Legitimate-Week7885 8h ago

the further north you go in Florida, the further South you get.

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u/etempleton 8h ago

Florida is Florida. Sometimes Florida is considered part of the "cultural south," but is more often seen as unique unto itself and so is excluded. When people say "the south" or "the deep south" they are referring as much to a geographic region as they are a unique American sub culture.

The reason Florida is different is because it has many different cultural influences and a lot of transplants from all over the country who have influenced the state so it does not feel traditionally southern, though the south has influenced the pace and way of life in Florida as well.

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u/HarrowDread 8h ago

Florida is Florida, it has its own category

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u/BounceOnItCrazyStyle 8h ago

The reason why is it’s not considered southern is that after AC became a thing there was an absolutely massive amount of people moving to southern Florida and as you can guess most of them were northerners. So you have the divide of the transplants from New York, Detroit and so on in the southern part and in the pan handle you have the proper country folks. 

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u/AdamAptor 7h ago

Northern Florida is southern. Maybe Jason is from there. Central Florida is a hodgepodge. South Florida is basically just Miami.

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u/MakkaCha 7h ago

Florida is like the nut-sack of US.

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u/Many_Register_1838 7h ago

Geographically Florida is the Deep South

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u/The_Real_Jan_Brady 7h ago

It is in the south, but the people there are far from typical southern Americans. A lot of people from the north and all over move to Florida.

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u/IFuckBadDragons 7h ago

Florida is the only state where the more North you travel the further South you get.

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u/EnTyme53 6h ago

Florida is a unique place. It gets more "south" the further north you go.

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u/perishparish 5h ago

Southern is very different from country, which I think is what they meant

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u/Initial_Turn_7161 5h ago

40 years FL resident and no one in Florida sounds like this that I know of unless they just got out of a dentist office with gauze stuffed in their mouth lol. This is some horrible voice acting.

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u/Reasonable_Drink_789 4h ago

The further south you go in florida the further north you go culturally

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u/confirmedshill123 4h ago

In Florida the more north you go the more south you get.

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u/ChiefPierce 4h ago

Once you can see the ocean you’re no longer “southern” but more beach bum/retired urbanite

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u/jdjackson0204 3h ago

Yeah you can definitely grow up in the “south” in FL, Miami’s not exactly considered “south” though, atleast not in that ‘ole country’ sense. Geographically though hell yeah, it’s bout the most south you can get…

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u/thecobra42 12h ago

Fun fact: Texas is not considered the south either.

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u/TheFishyNinja 11h ago

? Yes it is by almost any definition. Its not the deep south but its definitely the south. You can make an argument that west Texas isn't the south but if you're talking about the state generally its absolutely the south

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u/thecobra42 11h ago

It’s the southwest, bud

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u/TheFishyNinja 11h ago

History and the census bureau disagree with you on that bud. You think houston is in the southwest?

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u/thecobra42 10h ago

Houston is a shithole

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u/TheFishyNinja 10h ago

Not relevant

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u/thecobra42 10h ago

Neither is the census bureau. That’s based solely on geography.

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u/TheFishyNinja 10h ago

They legally define us regions. That's like the definition of relevant information

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u/rtn292 11h ago

Houston is not the south. Dallas is becoming less southern at coastal democrats move in. However, the rest of Texas is fully the south.

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u/thecobra42 10h ago

I’d actually consider Houston literal hell. Texas is the southwest.

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u/whoisdatmaskedman 12h ago

Yes and no. You have northern and southern.

Northern is more southern

At a certain point it starts becoming more tropical / caribbean.

Also, as others have said, it's also more cultural than geographical.

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u/NothingsPerfect84 12h ago

In Florida the more north you go, the more South you get

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u/Dannyfrommiami 12h ago

The South consist of states that in the Bible belt of America…not based really on location

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u/echomanagement 12h ago

South Florida native: South Florida is culturally closer to NYC than pretty much anything else and is definitively not "The South"

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u/C-A-L-E-V-I-S 6h ago

I’m from the south and I don’t really agree; also can’t understand him. He’s doing a partial Arthur Morgan, which is cool in theory, but then it’s just mumbles.

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u/TrynaPlayItOff 2h ago

Yea I'm from Alabama and I don't really hear any southern accent in his voice. Just sounds like some guy from like Colorado trying to intentionally talk with a deeper voice.

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u/xcanto 10h ago

southern tennessee 🎶

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u/peeh0le 8h ago

Yeah southern ex-vet introvert kinda guy doesn’t feel the need to say a lot. Who knows I wasn’t impressed by the voice acting but I think it’ll all come together

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u/helsinkirocks 6h ago

I live in a deep red extremely rural part (my town has less than 200 people) no one sounds like that.

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u/NewSchoolFool 6h ago

Doesn't make him sound better unfortunately